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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24
Longest Tunnel in the World.

An engineering work that has taken
over a century to construct can hardly
fail to offer some points of interest in
It's history. and Illustrate the march of
events during the years of its progress.
An instance of this kind Is to be found
in tunnel not long since completed.
but which was commenced over 100
years ago. This tunnel. or adit. as it
should be more strictly termed. is at
Sehemnitz, in Hungary. Its construct
ION was agreed upon in 1872, the object
being to carry of the water from the
SchemuitZ mines to the lowest part Of
the Gran Valley.
The work Is now complete. and il
forms the longest tunnel in the world
being 1927 miles long, or about one
mile longer than st. Gothard. and p
miles longer than Mont Gents. The
height /. 9 feet 10 inches and the
breadth feet 8 inches. Fhis tunnel.
which taken SO long in making, has
cost very nearly million sterling. but
the money appears to have been well
spent; N least the present generation
has no reason to grnmble, for the saving
from being able to do away with water
raising appliances amounts % fl5,000
year.
There Is one further point. however.
worth notice, for if have the advan-
tage of our great--randfathers in the
matter of mechanical appliances they
certainly were better off in the price of
labor. The original contract for the
I tunnel. made in 1882. was that it should
be completed in thirty wears and should
cost e per yard run. For eleven
( wears the work was done at this price.
/ but the French revolution enhanced the
/ cost of labor and materials to such an
extent that for thirty years little pro-
/ gress was made.
I For ten years following much pro-
I gress was made. and then the work
/ dropped for tweltv years more until
1 he water threatened to drown the
mines ont altogether. Finally the
tunnel was completed III 1878, the re-
maiuiag part costing E22 yard. or
more than three times as much n the
original contract rate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

Some young men were asking the
Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks about ''white
lies" the other day. Suppose. asked
one. ''you were invited to inspect a
certain picture which the artist had
valued highly, and he wanted to know
your honest opinion of its merits, and
YOU could see nothing whatever c
praise in it, what should you do
well. said DIR. Brooks" at once,
I will tell you l should say just
what do to mothers who bring theiI
babies to me to be admired. always
say whether they are pretty or ugly
OH tn is baby leaving the
mother perfectly convinced that it is
the only baby in the world. and my
self utterly uncommited. | should say
the same thing when | saw the
picture
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24
CHAPTER XVIII.
A MARROW ESCAPE.

DIR. Shaw had TO use a moral per-
suasiOu. which trenehed on physical
force. to draw me inside the door Of 81.
Bartimeus's. 50 eager was L to get upon
the track of the miscreant who was re-
!, nsible for Mary Forteseue's safety
Come. come. said Shaw, in tLat
peculiarly persuasive voice which seems
% belong by rig. 70 members Of the
medical profession, '.for the present
nothing can be done, and you viii be
filter for a task which may tax all our
energies, after little rest here. than i
you spend your time driving about and
pacing the dark platform of an empty
railway station"
felt that he was strongly. Loyalty
interested in the matter. There was
that in Dr. Shaw's manner. there is
still. should rather say, which inspires
trust. because you feel that there is no
attempt at fCOling you. Some doctors
whom know, worthy men, TOO. handi-
cap their earnest moments Of feeling
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fro BE CONTINUED


The first three proof rounds of the
powerful new gun supplied by the
Elswick Works for her Majesty barbet
ship Benbow We're fired yesterday Feb.
1O) at the butts at Woolwich Arsenal.
the results 50 far going to show that
this is the finest piece of artillery yet
produced in this or any other country
Among the 'Woolwich Infants it is
like the famous Queen Elizabeth ;
bronze gun in Dover Castle among the
old carronades. I'm length it is 524
inches. or nearly A feet. The inner
tube is of solid steel throughout
strengthened by jackets of compare
lively thin steel hoops.
The length of the bore Is 4S79 inches.
or about thirty calibres. and the rifiing
which consists of multitude of small
shallow grooves, extends for 397.2 in
chcS or about So feet. The diameter of
the bore Is l6l inches. The diameter
of the powder chamber is a trifie over
y inches, and its capacity 2S.t 10 cubic
inches. The twist of the riling com
mences with one i'm 100 calibres. and
increases to one in So calibres. The
gun l. mounted ON "a fine cast-Steel
truck, which weighs % tons. and on
the proof rounds Yesterday il ran up
the incline from about 80 to 20 feet
The first round was fired with 600
pounds of Westphalian powder anC a
cylindrical projectile weighing 1,S00
pounds. The velocity attained was
! $50 feet per second. giving an energy
to the proiectile of about 81, 240 foot
tons for the penetration Of armor. The
second round was with shot of ike
weight and 700 pounds of the same
powder being the largest charge rs
vet fired in England The velocity at
tanned was l,Sl3 feet per second, the
energy acquired being about 43.100
foot tons. The third 70 md was with
similar projectile Of l ,S)Opounds and
a powder charge of 500 pounds.
The velocity attained WAS 2.007 feet
per second. and the entrgy rose to
some 10000 foot tons. The pressure
of the gases within the chamber of the
gun at the time of the powder discharge
was nine tons with the 600-pound
charge. Twelve tons with 200 pounds.
and fifteen tons with the S00-pound
charges. The recoil of the gun in the
last round was controlled by the by
draulic buffers within feet 6 inches
The inner tube of the gun was in per-
feet condition at the termination of the
days firing. Il is expected that when
the next day Of proof firing is deter
mined, powder charges Of $50 pounds,
900 pounds. 92j pounds and $50
pounds viii be used with projcctiles of
l.SUO pounds weight. In the latter
ease an energy on the proiectile Of o.
ZOO foot tons may be expected to be
developed capable penetrating armor
more than three feet in thickness
PaU MAI gazette.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24
Usefulness of Fog.

OF all the queer devices pertaining to
a sea-faring life the queerest is the
automatic fog bell that used to ring on
Race Point, Cape Cod. There was a
big bell with clock work that would
mournfully toll it whenever it was sci
a-going. The bell was under cover, but
projecting from the house was a long,
nicely balanced lever with a big sponge
on the out end. There was little roof
overthe sponge to keep the rain off, but
when a fog came on the moisture
would saturate the sponge, and the
weight bearing the lever down would
start the machine and set the bell to
tolling. If the fog soon disappeared
the sponge dried out and the lever
stopped the bell.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24
Making sermons.

a writer in Christian at Work says
'young men put far too much into
their sermons. An experienced and
popular clergyman said of his own
early work, Il have made six sermons
out of the first one | ever preached. "
Probably there are too many variant
themes in many sermons; and it is in
this way that there may be Too much
IN "A sermon. Son etimes the habit
grows with the ministers growth. and
becomes part Of his every fibre and it's
sue. The late venerated DIR. Welch.
of Albany. was one of these. After
getting off his twelfthly and thirteenth
ly, he would have his FINALLY and
lastly" and "to conclude. aud when
apparently finishing off with sort of
plagial cadence he would say-'and
now, brethren, another point and
then the rustling of the audience was IA
sound to hear as the tired faces of his
hearers were a sight TO see
DR.. Welch attempted too much; in
stead of contenting himself with ser
mon, he attempted the complete ESSAY
hihlltu 40 tic COM lJtSa vi Il silltll VOL
ume. As rule sermons should be
written as good rs editorials are. hay-
ing in view one or two or possibly
more points to press home, and having
done that, come to a finish Ii doesn't
follow that because more can be said.
therefore. more ought to be said A
remembrance of this fact might be of
service not alone to sermonizers, but
other writers and speak r. as well.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

Are among the most formidable known.
Diabetes, Bright's disease, gravel, and
other complaints Of the urinary organs, are
not ordinarily cured in severe cases, but
they may be averted by timely medication.
A useful stimulant of the urine ~ glands
has ever been found in HOstetter Stomach
Bitters. medicine which not only affords
the requisite stimulus when they become
inactive. but increases their vigor and So
cretive power. By increasing the activity
Of the kidneys and bladder, this medicine
has the additional effect OF expelling from
the blood impurities which it IS the
peculiar office Of those organs to eliminate
and pass of. The Bitters is also purifier
and strengthener of the bowels an invlgor-
ant Of the stomach, and mat chess remedy
for biIliousness and fever and ague. II
counteracts a tendency TO premature de
cav, and sustains and comforts the aged
and infirm-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

Girls are never taught to curtsey
now, as they used to be. A real, old
fashioned courtesy. as it used to be
spelled, is quite an elaborate perform
ance. My mother had lessons IN it
when she was u girl First, YOU draw
back the right foot, getting i straight
behind the other. and down y,u 20, as
far as the suppleuess Of your limbs will
permit, coming up Ito the recover
with all weight on the right foot, and
the left pointed out most daintily. A
curtsey is about the only thing in the
world that is helped out by the high
healed shoe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

OF course it wasl He tried one remedy
after another, and finally gave up and died
when his life might have been saved by TAX
ing DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov
ery''-the great Consumption Cure''-
which, if properly employed, will soon sub
due all threatening symptoms, such a:
cough, labOred breathing, night sweats
splitting of blood, etc, and restoring waning
strength and hope, effectually stop the poor
consumptive's rapid progress graveyard
Is it not worth tryingl All druggists.
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quest for I 81 -.gca'a- containing g 90 81 yaluseis
iS Of superior tl..rl artcies end mediciEs- renns
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WATERING HORSES.

A well known horseman protests
against watering horses Immediately
after they are fed. You must remem-
Der. he SAYS. the fact. that much of
what they have taken is dry food, and
when they drink it is often about as
men do at diuner when they take two
or three tumblers of ice water. If a
horse drinks a pail of water. he puts
into his stomach from five to eight
quarts. and that is almost the full ca
pacity of the stomach. Mat must
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24
A Profitable Investment

can be made in postal card, if it is used to
send your address on TO Hallett & Co.,
Portland, Maine, who can furnish you work
that you can do and live at home wher-
ever you are located; few there are who
cannot earn over s. per day, and some have
made over SO Capital not required; you
particulars free.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

An eminent physician said yesterday that
the Moxie Nerve Food had come to stay; its
place can no more be filed than can that of
quinine or sugar. 1t will recover paralysis
and nervous exhaustion without reaction or
bad effects at once. 1t is made into a very
delicious beverage; makes you eat and
sleep; cheap and within the reach of all.
Druggists keep it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

How did You get along with the Com
missionersg' asked policeman Of
brother officer.
..Oh. 1 got along fine. The charges
were dismissed. How did you make
ouis
II ). dong fine. too. Ten days
pa
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

Dan de guile gives an account Of a
queer adventure in the country Of the
Root Digger Indians:
while dashing furiously along ]
suddenly felt myself sink into the earth
up to my arm pits. At the same in
slant | heard down in the ground the
shrieks of human beings-women and
children / felt hands clutch at my
legs and naked human bodies pressing
against them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

November, $780," wrote Jos. P.
Murphy, Springfield, Tenn, MY
wife suffered eighteen months with neu-
ralgia and paralysis. BY use of St.
jacobs Oil, she could walk" October
7th, 1856, he writes: MY wife recoy-
cred entirely" Price fifty cents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

Charles Tiel, Philadelphia, Pa, was
in a hopeless condition from throat
trouble and asthma. Red Star Cough
Cure cured him. Price twenty-five
cents At druggists.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24
HOUSEKEEPING NOTES.

Tablespoon pudding. -Four spoons
of sifted flour, four spoons of sugar,
four (even. not heaped) spoons of but
ter. four separately beaten eggs, tea
spoon of yeast powder. Serve hot,
with sauce.
Oyster sauce. Half pint of oysters,
strain the liquor from them and boil it
with a cup of water, mace, black pep
per and salt, thieken it with bit of
butter rolled in flour Pour in the oys-
tiers with a glass of the liquor; let it
boil up onte. This is an excellent
sauce.
Cranberry sauce. Pour boiling wa
ter over the cranberries. This instant
~ swells all the good ones, and makes
it easy to pick out decayed ones Stew
the fruit until soft in very little wa
ter. When soft, add sugar to taste.
Corned beef stew Takeone can of
corned beef, add to it three. pints of
milk and one onion sliced. Put into n
stew pan, when it comes to boil
thicken with little flour and water.
Clipped beef stew. To one quart of
milk add one large teaspoonful of but
ter and one half can of Clipped beef;
thicken with a little flour and water.
Add pepper.
Oyster stew. Take me two-pound
can of oysters and put the liquid on to
poll in stew pan; add one tablespoon
full of butter in which the same amount
of flour has been worked; then add one
quart of milk, some pepper and salt,
then add the oysters.
Foam sauce. One and one fourth cups
sugar, one-fourth cup of butter, yolk of
enc egg beaten together; flavor and add
white of one egg beaten to stiff froth;
last, put in one cup of boiling milk.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

Fits: All Fits stopped free by DIR. Kline's
Great Nerve RestOTer. No Fits after first
day use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and
800 trial bottle free TO Fit cases. Send to
DR.. Kline, y3l Arch St Phila., Pa
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

Locomotives now run in Jerusalem, and
the shrill steam whistle is heard in the
streets once trod by King David.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

Electricity is now universally used as an
explosive agent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

II afflicted with sore eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's eye water. Druggists sell It
BIC.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

No opium in PisOis Cure for Consumption.
Cures where other remedies fail &c.
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Interesting to Farmers

A tcacup of I've in pail of water viii
improve the appearance of black goods
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A boy on the farm is better than bum
mer in town
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ssOne fire burns out another's burning"
aud ,i1ost pains suffer more 70 be cured. but
Salvation Oh is painless and certain. 1t
costs only = cents.
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It's thousands of cures are the best adver-
tisement for DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
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happenP The material in the stomach
already will be forced out. and it is
forced into the larger intestines undi-
gested and with loss of value of the
food from not being properly digested,
so that there can be no such assimila-
ton as if il were digested in the stom-
aeh. There was an experiment tried in
France when | was present at Abort,
where horses were going to be fed and
killed for dissection. They were horses
that were not valuable. They were
first fed and then given water, aud az
forwards killed and examined. Some
grain which they had eaten was found
undigested in the intestines twenty feet
beyond the stomach That shows that
horses ought not to be watered imme-
diately after eating.
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nl.order. whloh Arect the kidney.

A crooked rail is worth more as fire-woo
than as part of fence.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24

A New. jersey man has been fined
fifty dollars for keeping COW. The
COW belonged to neighbof
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One New York club he'd d wine bill dur
ng 1856 of 5000
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The foot of coarse cotton stocking is SUI
perior to a sponge for bathing purposes.
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when Baby was sick, We gave her CAstorfA,
Whsn abe was . Child, she cried for CastorIA
Whss she became Miss, she cling to CAstoriA,
WhsA ahs had Children, shs gave them Caasersa,
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A sailor can truthfullv speak Of the We
sci in which he sails e the place OF his
berth.
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To prevent a shiny skin use a little cam
phor in the wash,water Never use face
powder.
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wanted Gentlemen and Ladies' to learn Teis-
graphing. Tuition not paid until position %
famed Address DR.. Valentines College, "a
Washington St, Chicago. Ills
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CELERY.

Probably no vegetable has advanced
so much in general appreciation and
culture as celery. The theory of blanch-
ing it is tibet, like other plants, it does
not become green and firm when grow
ing in the dark. but remains pale and
tender The usual way of putting
its stems in the dark while it is yet
growing in the open ground and sun
shine is to cover them with heaped up
soil, when they become white in two
weeks if growth be free. but require
several weeks if it be slow. Some
celery growers report very favorably of
round tile of three-inch calibre and
about foot long slipped over the eel
lery while dry, which is a very conven-
lent method. rs the rows can be near
er together and the labor is greatly
essened.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-24
THE HousEKhEPER

EThe mistress of the farmhouse is
often a greater drudge than the farmer.
The routine of daily duty is more uni
form and eXacting. The confinement
is more cTcumseribed and naturally
becomes more irksome. She is too
often housekeeper. nurse, cook, COVER
ness, chambermaid, seamstress. dairy
woman, as well as the farmers wife.
Such a substitute for maid-of-all-york
should be made of iron. The farmer
is accustomed to hard work himself
though il is relieved by the ameliora-
tions.of pure air and free locomotion,
and he fails 10 see the slavery to which
his wife is doomed because his mother
was just such slave. His ideas come
by Inheritance, and are fortified by
personal experience. He might relieve
her by relegating the dairy TO the fac
tory. BY labor-saving appliances, by
hiring more help, som times by doing Il
little of this domestic drudeery HIMSELF
but hedosen't think of it, and perhaps.
don't like to have one jog his memory
Under these tolls and hardships, saving
nothing of trials of disposition and tribu-
lations of temper. is it wonder that
the farmer wife is sometimes compelled
to exchange her home of hardship for a
hospital of mind diseased? These may
be extreme eases, but they occur, and
were it not for wholesome influences of
the country, would come to light with
greater frequency.
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UnETu STUDY. Secure . BusiBsss E6ucAtira bF
ltMh mai BTySat's Bus College, 5 8al0. NJ
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NEED OF CHANGE.

The ills of isolation and the heavy
weight of care are not the only causes
of physical and mental strain and col
lapse in the experience of country life
There are avoidable unsanitary sur
roundings utterly out of keeping with
the purity and healthfulness of natural
rural conditions. The barn yard may
be too near the well; cesspools and sur
face drainage may aid the pollution by
percolation; decaying vegetation in
the cellar may fill the house with poi
sonous gases. The resisting power Of
high health may long withstand innu-
ences so injurious. until, some summer,
dysentery or typhoid fever may select
for victim the flower of the family. or
carry off the handwriting mother, the
guardian angel of the household.
In view of such facts, which have
excited much attention without ex-
erting a sufficient influence, the need
of respite from strain of monotOnous
toll, upon the farm, must be apparent.
Some form of vacation. short though it
must be in summer, is eyideatly neces-
sary, some temporary change, frequent,
yet radical. of the tone and tenor of
ordinary routine, is essential to the
highest results of the work and the
highest health and happiness of the
worker